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@English for joint Navy projects HCC 086 Advance Reading resources Parent-Child Education in Washington, DC at the Ethiopian Community Center Adult Education ESOL/Civics. . . Beg II Fall2013 Summer2013 Spring-I-2013 Fall2012 Spring2012 Fall2011 Classes for English learners * Write in style * My webpages on pronunciation resources: http://dagz.wikispaces.com/ Library resources Reading and Literacy

Lesson plans related to holidays: Thanksgiving Th1 Handouts for: Vocabulary 2013: @Dialogs 2012 2011 classes: MS Excel, Pronuncation, Substituting

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Scheduled week of Pronunciation Class: fifth, sixth WorkStyles Class: 19 Oct 2010 to 6 Jan 2011: Comments and Updates

Songs for the last Pronunciation class

10-year reunion in 2021 !: party

Business cards Writing skills

First day icebreakers: Scavenger Hunt, Level 2: Bus Scavenger Hunt Last day icebreakers: Scavenger Hunt in 10 years

Job bulletin boards, search engines, links, Thanks to Fall 2010 students for Answers to class questions, including job networking, job ethics training job resources job search sites Workforce development job openings at specific companies and agencies

2011 Job Fairs [|15 Jan 2011] Rockville; Experience [//sic//] Health Care Workers; from [|caringhands] on 2 Dec 2010
 * 2010 Job Fairs**
 * 2010 Job Fairs**

"Driving me crazy" in Maryland in Virginia in DC in New York Driving safely PSA's (Public Service Announcements)

Must register at [|http://www.mwejobs.com] prior to acceptance into the training program.
 * 10 Dec (sign up by 9 Dec)** * sign up by 9 Dec for next day in Baltimore green training

11 dec Saturday 9 AM to 12 noon 14501 Sweetzer Lane / Laurel, MD 20707 Interested in becoming a Pipe Technician? Join us!! For detail [//sic//] job descrpition visit [|www.wsscwater.com] (p. B-13 of Gazette) Job description Is this really going to take place? Yeah! My mail to "Cust-Relations"  was answered! So was my query to HR Employment <HR_Employment@wsscwater.com //Good Afternoon,// //Attached is the job fair information. For a detail [//sic//] job description, please visit [|www.wsscwater.com] and click on the “Pipe Technician” job title.// //Thank you for your interest and hope you will join us in attending the job fair.// //Human Resources Office// No human voice at the number referenced in the email I got: "If you have an inquiry other than the status of your application, please call our employment line on (301) 206-8788."


 * Seasonal Lessons: Will your store be open on July Fourth / Thanksgiving / New Year's**
 * Seasonal: When is the winter break for your school / office / plant ?**

Non-Latin virtual keyboards [] []


 * Etiquette and turn-taking**
 * Requesting permission, **
 * Answering the phone; **


 * Retail/Wholesale vocabulary, import/export business, career path, on-line applications**
 * do you want to work for a small or a large business?**


 * job resources**
 * Sixth Day Job applications: Whole Foods, Trader Joe's **


 * Application - [|Trader Joe's] **
 * middle initial; name changes, prior address, reverse order, social security ID, ID theft **


 * Titles of Address **
 * Licensed to drive**
 * California Driving handbook in Armenian **

X. Chunking for intonation and focus powerpoint by Linda Grant more Patriotic practice

Consonants
II. Target Sounds: th in two forms, using IPA θ ð

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III. Target Sounds: f v f-v alteration w r =====


 * V. Voice Onset Timing for p (compare p, b, v) **


 * New York : "jeet" = "Did you eat?" [|http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4TSHB_enUS322US323&q=] [|contraction+across+word+boundaries+in+English] **
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 * complex consonant clusters: texts, costs (the word final /s/ tells tense or number) **
 * verb conjugation: makes (TBD), costs **

Telephone transmission: NATO αβ, LA Police Department

 * International Phonetic Alphabet**


 * Transcription: [|http://www.langsci.ucl.ac.uk/ipa/IPA_chart_(C)2005.pdf] IPA symbols**
 * IPA subsets: Amharic, Arabic, English, French, Persian, Spanish, Swahili**
 * [] index**


 * Phonetics: [|http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/about.html#] (with sound and view)**
 * American: [|http://www.ic.arizona.edu/~lsp/IPA/SSAE.html]**
 * American and British (with sound) []**
 * Interactive IPA: from Paul Meier**


 * American IPA variant uses [y] instead of [j] (from UW and UCSD)**

Vowels
UW [|samples] (Unicode has replaced these computer codes) transcribed hVd pattern
 * Southern California surfer has a high front rounded vowel ("a good wave") (UCSD paper on "Gnarly") **
 * Sonification: UW samples of "hVd"**
 * hVd, cVd, pVd**
 * Colored Vowels - r **
 * hVrd, cVrd, pVrd **

Rhythm and running speech in children's songs

Intonation: hand-out Elicit productions with Ballet Trockadero "That's funny?!" / Chef Mary Levin's Schwarma Chili Taco "This is Schwarma?!"

Legal
Federal Regulations: Department of Labor at $2.13 per hour at min wage
 * Montgomery County: sample contract**
 * State of Maryland: State contracts [|at $12.28/hour]**
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**Language Resources** Listening ESL: library [] add on by this author is announced
 * Translation: [|County docs]**
 * Professional Organizations: [|VASTA] (voice and speech trainers), TESOL Speech, Pronunciation, and Listening Interest Section **
 * Accent Reduction:** [] actors' resource page of dialects and accents more
 * Automatic Translation (of text) **
 * World Lingo
 * Babel Fish
 * Google Language Tools
 * Free Translation

**Vocabulary** elf drawing
 * [|line drawing crab]**
 * []**
 * Clarifying information at work - pair exercise of retrieving "a book" or "a knick-knack" from a shelf in the room **
 * Which dictionary has these words? []**
 * vocabulary:[|vermouth], knick-knack, [|tequilla cactus] **

Minimal Pairs Type IPA symbols web-site æ ɛ minimal pairs tacks, texts, taxes, taxi


 * Spelled the same, but listen to the difference: ough pronounced ten ways! **

More Videos here
Iranian-American black belt foils store robbery. 10 Sept 2007 (2:49)

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III. Smalltalk 4-Aug-2009 (3min) between President Obama and WH Press Corps member Helen Thomas via C-SPAN, (1:30 +text) [|via CBS]===== II. Sports Songs: Washington Redskins football team
 * III. Whole Foods Market in Baltimore 24-Mar-2010: surprise opera (4min) [|via WashNatOpera], (3:30) [|via BaltimoreSun]**
 * Humor in Farsi: 20-Apr-2008 citizenship interview (5min) via IranianSchoolSD**
 * V. [|Jose Cuervo is a friend of mine] pronunciation of v**, **th** (both kinds), **p lyrics**

Patriotic practice


 * III.Declaratives -- negative and positive.**
 * No. I don't know what time it is.**
 * Yes. We have no bananas.**
 * lyrics [] tenor []**


 * [] "New York" Frank Sinatra - posted 25 July 2009 from 1982**

http://hardlyworking.wikispaces.com/Governor+Arnold+Schwarzenegger

 * Unlearning to tawk like a New Yorker from the New York Times ([|SAM ROBERTS], November 19, 2010) google more**
 * //* The New York accent is a distinctive amalgam of Irish, German, Yiddish and Italian — now infused with black and Hispanic dialects and a Caribbean lilt....//**
 * //* Some clients also find it unnerving. “ // I felt if I lost my accent I’d lose part of who I was //,” Miss LoGiudice said. “Almost no one thinks I’m from Queens anymore.”//**
 * //*// Mr. Ramos, 26, the television reporter, grew up in Passaic, N.J., and he said his New York regional accent was “an endearing quality because New York is a great place to be from, but if you ever want to work outside New York, it may put you in a box //.”//**
 * //*// Mr. Mullin, 60, a tax and criminal lawyer who practices in Manhattan and New Jersey, said he grew tired of going to legal training seminars in which fellow lawyers complained about not understanding him. “ I didn’t want to be boxed in regionally //,” he said. “I wanted to be a clear communicator. My accent got in the way.”//**


 * Accents used as a form of identification in comedian routines **


 * Evaluating English Accents WorldWide project at the [|University of Otago], **
 * Compare the text read aloud [|NAm Male] [|NAm Female]**
 * [|NZE Female] [|NZE Male] [|AusE Female] [|AusE Male] [|EE Female] [|EE Male] **
 * Dear Mum and Dad: Hi! How are you? Well, here I am in the big city. Although the weather is nice at the moment, the forecast is for hail, but that should soon clear. I bought a new coat yesterday because they say it gets really cold. I have to stay at Aunty Deb's house for now, but I'm hoping to get a flat soon. The trip up was great, even though it took ten hours. Well, I must go. You know how rarely I write, but I will try to do better this year. Love Clare / Clark**

spectrograms: praat lesson
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